[AISWorld] extended deadline: PAKM2010 Knowledge Management Conference in Philadelphia

Tue Jun 8 03:01:31 EDT 2010

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--- Last deadline extension: 15 June 2010 ---

Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management: PAKM 2010
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     November 10-12, 2010 Philadelphia - USA

         The Eighth Conference on
     Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management

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    http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/PAKM2010/

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************* CALL FOR PAPERS *************
     Submission due extended to 15 June 2010
  Conference:             10 to 12 November 2010
  Workshops:             10 November  2010
  Scientific Program:   11-12 November  2010

  *** SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN ***

PUBLICATIONS: CONFERENCE AND JOURNALS
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PAKM 2010 is offering an opportunity for accepted papers to be published 
in LNCS/LNAI in the series name Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 
( www.springer.com/lncs) on an issue of Practical Aspects of Knowledge 
Management.

Authors of best papers may be invited to submit an extended version to a 
special issue of a journal.

*** Best papers in Applied AI and KM will be invited to submit an 
extended version for a special issue in Intelligent Systems in 
Accounting, Finance & Management.

*** Best papers in general areas may be invited to submit an extended 
version for the International Journal of Knowledge Management.

ACCEPTANCE RATE
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PAKM 2006  23%
PAKM 2008  37%
Expected acceptance rate for 2010 to be between 25 and 30%

CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS
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11 NOVEMBER 2010
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Jay Liebowitz                                University of 
Maryland                 12 NOVEMBER 2010
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Larry Prusak
Former Executive Director of the
Institute for Knowledge Management

REGISTRATION cost
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Registration rates in US Dollars*
 Registration early student    380
Registration early non-student    480
 Registration late student    575
Registration late non-student    730
*We will shortly offer an alternative including very low rate for 
conference hotel too. 
SUBMISSIONS
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PAKM emphasizes its practical aspects in its title because knowledge 
management efforts will benefit a target community, individual, or 
organization.  Nevertheless, apart from describing how the contribution 
benefits its target, papers must point out the scientific or business 
benefits of its solutions.

We wish to encourage the submission of contributions that espouse an 
interdisciplinary approach, which will therefore be favored over 
one-dimensional papers.

Submissions will be anonymous and subject to blind reviews.

Submission web page:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pakm2010

Below is a not exhaustive list of topics that will be considered:

Building and maintaining knowledge inventories
- knowledge directories
- knowledge modeling
- automatic creation of meta data
- knowledge integration
Collaboration and knowledge sharing
- knowledge sharing communities
- social software
- knowledge sharing and collaboration platforms
- integration of processes across organizational boundaries
Capturing and securing knowledge
- knowledge capturing within business processes
- knowledge acquisition, lessons learned, debriefing
- organizational memories
- knowledge storage and representation
Knowledge utilization
- content-oriented retrieval
- question answering
- integration of knowledge and business processes
- graphical user interfaces for retrieving and
- visualizing knowledge
- semantic web
Developing new knowledge
- innovation management
- ontology management and development
- communities of practice
Knowledge Measurement and evaluation
- evaluation of knowledge management systems
- measuring the benefits of KM solutions
- measuring the cost of KM solutions, knowledge access
- measuring the benefits of knowledge access
- proportions and relative cost of knowledge cycles
- cost of missing knowledge
Competitive intelligence
How to store and retrieve shared knowledge
Using digital libraries
Collective intelligence and knowledge management
Knowledge fusion
Theoretical models for KM
Experimental designs to test KM tasks and approaches

IMPORTANT DATES
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Papers Due:  15-Jun-10

Notification of acceptance:  12-Jul-10

Camera-ready Due:  12-Aug-10

SUBMISSION FORMAT
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Papers MUST be submitted in Springer LNCS format, with a maximum of 12 
pages. Authors' instructions are available on the web at 
http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-12-73062-0

AIMS AND SCOPE
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The PAKM Conference Series offers a communication forum and meeting 
ground for practitioners and researchers. The conference focus is on 
developing and deploying advanced solutions for the management of 
knowledge in organizations and other communities that can benefit from 
its methods.

This year's conference we will pay particular attention to the 
innovations on the interaction between Business, Computer Science, 
Information Systems, and Library and Information Science.

PAKM is a forum for people to share their views, to exchange novel 
ideas, to develop new insights, and to envision, propose and demonstrate 
new kinds of solutions and new organizational methods and/or tools to 
Knowledge Management problems.

Management in companies deals with many things: people, energy, 
materials, etc. The management integrates them as a whole system and 
organizes the flow between the parts efficiently. In some companies, the 
same is done with knowledge. What methods are available and how well 
this integration of knowledge is understood?

Libraries and universities are examples of organizations where knowledge 
plays a major role within management. What methods are available to 
integrate knowledge (e.g., curricula, expertise, centers of excellence, 
programs) with people and other resources in libraries and universities?
The topics will cover relevant and applicable aspects of knowledge 
management. We invite practitioners and researchers from all over the 
world to submit papers. We are looking forward to a conference which 
will address a wide spectrum of topics from a variety of perspectives.

We seek original contributions in the business and organization 
sciences, cognitive science, library and information science, 
information systems and computer science that represent a true 
advancement beyond the state-of-the-art of Knowledge Management.

Business and organization sciences provide the overall framework for 
developing a knowledge management approach with a focus on the business 
aspects rather than on information technology aspects.

Computer science provides the tools needed to build the information 
systems that are often required to make certain aspects of a knowledge 
management solution work. Cognitive science helps to design knowledge 
management solutions in line with the cognitive capabilities of the 
people involved and optimally embedded in their work context.

Library and information science analyzes how to organize and understand 
knowledge for the benefit of the users.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Eileen Abels, USA
David Aha, USA
Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Germany
Yuan An, USA
Lönnqvist Antti, Finland
Irma Becerra-Fernandez, USA
Ansgar Bernardi, Germany
Nick Bontis, Canada
Chaomei Chen, USA
Belinha De Abreu, USA
Stefan Decker, Ireland
Kemal Delic, USA
Juan Dodero, Spain
Joaquim Filipe, Portugal
Peter Funk, Sweden
Fabien Gandon, France
Enrico Giunchiglia, Italy
Norbert Gronau, Germany
Siegfried Handschuh, Ireland
Remko Helms, The Netherlands
Knut Hinkelmann, Switzerland
Achim Hoffmann, Australia
Byeong-ho Kang, Australia
Murray Jennex, USA
Dimitris Karagiannis, Austria
Larry Kerschberg, USA
David Leake, USA
Jay Liebowitz, USA
Ana Maguitman, Argentina
Ronald Maier, Austria
Mark Maybury, USA
Karim Moustaghfir, Morocco
Hector Munoz, USA
Vadake Narayanan, USA
Daniel O'Leary, USA
Jung-Ran Park, USA
Sven Rehm, Germany
Ulrich Reimer, Switzerland
Debbie Richards, Australia
Bodo Rieger  Germany
Gerold Riempp, Germany
Stefan Smolnik, Germany
Steffen Staab, Germany
Rudi Studer, Germany
Ulrich Thiel  Germany
A Min Tjoa  Austria
Eric Tsui, China
Andre Valente, United States
Ian Watson New Zealand
Frithjof Weber, Germany
Mary-Anne Williams, Australia
Takahira Yamaguchi, Japan
Lisl Zach, USA

CHAIRS AND ORGANIZATION
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PROGRAM CHAIRS

- Rosina Weber, iSchool @ Drexel University, USA

- Michael Richter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

CONFERENCE CHAIR

- Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA

WEBMASTER

- Robin Naughton, Drexel University, USA

LOCAL COMMITTEE

- Ilya Waldstein, Drexel University, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE
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STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIRS

- Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
- Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Switzerland

STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS

- Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University, USA
- John Davies, British Telecom, UK
- Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA
- Daniel O'Leary, University of Southern California, USA
- Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
- Mary-Anne Williams, The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
- Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan

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Prof. Dr. habil. Ulrich Reimer
University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen
Institute for Information and Process Management
Head of Research and Technology Transfer
Teufener Strasse 2
CH-9000 St. Gallen
Switzerland

Email: ulrich.reimer at fhsg.ch
Tel.: +41 71 228 7659
Fax: +41 71 228 6339
Web: www.fhsg.ch/ipm
   www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/~reimer